Hot Mama Yama

This teeny kiss was crammed between arguments - and we <3 geeky Willow! (well I do). Tara + Will go to look for a runaway Dawn at the Bronze:

Tara: (yelling over the music) Do you think she's here?
Willow: (yelling) What?
Tara: Do you think Dawn might have come here?
Willow: It's where I'd be if I were fifteen and on the lam. They begin to walk around.
Tara: Really?
Willow: Well, not me at fifteen, 'cause, hello, spaz.
Tara: (mock shock) You?
Willow: Yeah. Hard to believe such a hot mama-yama came from humble, geek-infested roots? They begin climbing the stairs to the balcony.
Tara: Infested roots, trying to turn me on?
Willow: (smiles) I have to try now?
Willow gives her a kiss.

I think I'm kinda gay!

This is a bittersweet little almost kiss. Willow's on the way to losing Tara by performing another forgetting spell but the chemistry between our amnesiac gals is palpable and more adorable than ever.

Inside the pipe Tara and Willow are pressed close together. Their faces are only inches apart. Their breath audible. They catch each other's eyes. Tara looks away. And then back. Another second and then Willow looks down, embarrassed by the intensity. And then back. Holding it.
A little later --
Willow: How ya doin', Dawn?
Dawn: Okay. It's scary. But weirdly? Kind of familiar.
Willow: I know what you mean.
Dawn: How are you?
Willow: A little confused. I mean, I'm sweaty, I'm trapped, no memory, hiding in a pipe, from a vampire -
Willow glances at Xander and then at Tara.
Willow: and I think I'm kind of gay.
Later still --
Exterior of pipe.
As Tara jumps to the ground, then Willow. Dawn is about to jump, when the vamp, having jumped down, lunges for Tara.
Willow throws herself on Tara, pushing her out of the way, landing on top of her. Saving her life.
They move towards each other, about to embrace.
Tara and Willow.. Their faces centimeters apart now.
Tara and Willow move to each other, about to kiss, their first kiss in this world...

And about time!

Tara: Things fall apart, they fall so hard...
INT. BUFFY'S HOUSE - WILLOW'S ROOM - NIGHT
Willow, sitting at her bed with a textbook, looks up to see Tara standing in the doorway.
Willow: Tara...
Tara: You can't ever put them back the way they were...
Willow: Are you okay?
Tara: I'm sorry, it's just... you know it takes time. you can't just have coffee and expect --
Willow: (a bit ashamed) I know.
Tara: There's so much to work through. Trust has to be built again, on both sides... you have to learn if you're even the same people you were, if you can fit in each other's lives, it's a long and important process and can we just skip it? Can you just be kissing me now?
Willow searches Tara's face: did Tara just... Tara stares back, nervous but sure.
Willow stands as Tara moves to her and they kiss, passionately.
They interlock fingers, holding on to each other as tight as they can. Not letting go.
They keep kissing. It is intense, it is passionate, and it is, above all else, love.
Truly and forever.

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